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From: Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:05:19
Message-Id: 4E68F57C.90002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 Tomáš Chvátal schrieb:
2 > Start collecting ideas for EAPI5.
3
4 1) USE-flag based support to cross-compile packages (mostly implemented in multilib-portage)
5 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python, ruby or php)
6 3) (internal) USE-flag based support to re-install packages (replacement for
7 revdep-rebuild/@preserved-rebuild)
8
9 The order of the list is also in the order of how much of it is already implemented and could be
10 easily drafted.
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12 The first one already has a working implementation, so might just need some smaller adjustments.
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14 The second one is already done in some eclasses, afaik php and ruby, but it might be a good idea to
15 have a general framework for all slotted languages, so there is no need to re-implement the same for
16 every language.
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18 The third one is mostly an idea, where packages requiring a rebuild of depending packages define a
19 specific var (SLOT or some new one line ABI_SLOT, which needs to be updated, when depending packages
20 need to be rebuild), so that whenever this var is updated, all depending packages have to be
21 rebuild. This probably needs a bit more of discussion and thinking to get it properly drafted.

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